When half an hour or more had passed, the old soldier said to me, in a more kindly tone than I had ever suspected he could use: "The lad is eatin' his heart out, an' all to no purpose.

These lads are very devils."

"That's a weight off my mind," breathed the captain, while Harry hastily confided to his father that the lads who had boarded the vessel out of the mist were Boy Scouts.

"This lad is a messenger from Oxford, and bears, I doubt not, important documents.

"That there lad's a reg'lar rip-snorter, Perfesser.

Well, th' lad were i' good heart abeawt it; an' when he geet theer th' chap towd him at he thought he wur very likely for th' job, so that made it better,an' th' lad begun o' wearin' his bit o' brass o' summat to eat, an' sich like, thinkin' he're sure o' th' shop.

The first lad Bob met was Ted Neefus.

"Your armour gude ye maunna show, Nor yet appear like men of weir; As country lads be a' array'd, Wi' branks and brecham on each mare." Sae their horses are the wrang way shod, And Hobbie has mounted his gray sae fine; Jock his lively bay, Wat's on his white horse behind.

This sudden interruption to the service caused considerable excitement, and the little preacher, on being extricated from his hat, furiously proclaimed that the lad he had seized, dressed as an apprentice, was a malignant, who had been taken prisoner at Brentford, and who had foully ill-treated him in a cell in the guardroom at Finsbury.

"Don't interfere," he whispered, "if the lad is a traitor, as well know it now as at some future time.

These high-spirited British lads, whom two years of cruelty have not cowed, are an intense puzzle to the German authorities.

But, my poor lad, granting your actress is a divine instrument of amorous music, I don't believe you capable of drawing from it one single note of passion's fugue.... Just consider.

To himself he said, "The lad's a find, I'm thinking.

"How came you to think of it?" "It was of interest to me," said Copley Banks, "for the woman was my wife, and the lads were my only sons.

This lad has been the victim of a vile plot.

Seeing what chums the lads were, the officer in command had placed them in the same watch, for here on land the same routine was observed as on board ship.

Every lad is a born naturalist, and the true wisdom, as all sensible people know, is to carry unfatigued through life the boy's power of enjoyment, his freshness of perception, his alertness and zest.

We lads were not the only ones who felt disturbed because of this strange behavior on the part of the enemy.

Soon, however, the two lads were fast friends, and spent much of their time together.

"Don't you see, man," Hugh whispered to Dennis, "that the lad's a natural, and can be got to do anything if you take him the right way?

Slippery, to whom this tart rebuke was addressed, now explained that the lad by his side was his "pal", and not his road kid; this explanation seemed to satisfy the speaker for he stretched out his hand and greeted Joe in a most cordial manner, while Slippery introduced him to the party, not by his honest Christian name, but by his road name, "Dakota Joe".

This lad here is my pardner, just now.

The lad was practically his own master, and the memories of Florentine gallantries filled his mind with desires for their resumption.

"Now, lads, now's our time.

an' I'm not the one who ought to speak when lads are makin' up their minds as to the future, lest I say that which pleases me, an' may not be the best thing for them.